MINTON : STAFFORDSHIRE (C. 1793-1873)
Pair of bon-bon dishes (from the 'Victoria' pattern dessert service)
1850-51Glazed and unglazed bone china, painted in enamels, partly gilded | 21.6 x 20.7 x 15.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 58104
Biscuit bone china bon-bon dish; a boy holding a tortoise and a girl with a shell at her ear stand back-to-back, a scallop shell resting on a foliate scroll to either side; upon an oval turquoise bone china base with gadrooning.